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Gustavo Turner Jul 9, 2020 11:29 AM PDT BEIJING — China’s main censorship agency, the National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications, release a statement today announcing the removal of over 8 million “pieces of pornographic and other harmful material†during the first half of 2020. According to the agency’s announcement , 12,000 websites were removed under the umbrella terms “pornography and harmful content,†which can include various non-sexually-related categories. Platforms where some of this “pornographic and harmful†material were removed including big local tech companies like the Youku and iQiyi video streaming sites, forum Baidu Tieba and even the...
